2008feb29. Photo set: Trader Vic’s tiki sale. They recently closed the San Francisco and Osaka Trader Vic’s, and bought out a tiki supplier that was going under ... so they were over-laden with tikis. The cashier said this was a “once-in-a-lifetime” thing and “probably would never be repeated.” The large post-like tikis (“posts”) were going for $250, the tiki-like tikis (“tikis”) started at around $750 and went up to about $2500. They hadn’t gotten around to unwrapping a lot of the Osaka ones when I was taking these photos. Some of the tikis were recently carved, some were very old ... some were funny (the gap-mouthed buck tooth one that unfortunately had a “sold” tag; it wasn’t around while I was taking photos), some had dongs. Which is also funny as well.
